A Swingin Session With Duke Robillard

Tracks:
01. Deed I Do
02. The Lonesome Road
03. Them That Got
04. Just Because
05. Meet Me at No Special Place
06. Red Dog
07. They Raided the Joint
08. When Your Lover Has Gone
09. The Song Is Ended
10. Swinging with Lucy Mae

Duke Robillard has always had one foot in the blues world and one in the swing/jazz universe. He loves both styles of music and enjoys not only playing them separately but combining them together.

"A Swingin’ Session with Duke Robillard" is an album for everyone, blues lovers or jazz fans. It is joyful, timeless music. Duke Robillard presides like a great chef, adding a touch of seasoning here, a little extra heat there.

The players on A Swingin’ Session are Scott Hamilton, Doug James, Mark Teixera, Sax Gordon, Bruce Katz and Marty Ballou, all major players in the jazz / blues scene and many are band leaders themselves.

"There are classics like "Deed I Do," "The Song is Ended," "Them That Got" and "When Your Lover Has Gone." Rhode Islanders Scott Hamilton, Al Basile and Doug James, along with half a dozen musicians who have played (or still play) with Robillard, help power bluesy fare such as "They Raided the Joint" and" Swingin' with Lucy Mae."

Bruce Katz' organ playing is superb throughout, and horn contributions from Carl Querforth (of Roomful) and Gordon "Sax" Beadle are pushed along by a rhythm section that effortlessly lifts the band."